The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-04-16

nohsense!' Jennie interrupted remorse-
lessly. al must hurry and be through my
work before our boarder comes"
''rhat's twice you liaye alluded to that
boardcr. Who is it?''
"a young latly-coming to spend the
| summer Some friends of ours were telling
| her about our place, and she wrote to
/ know If we would take her, as she desired
| particularly to find some place where there
were no other boarders. So mother corr
sented at last, and Miss Eulalia Worthing
ton will be here this evening, Quite Il
swell name-isn't it?'
win gave a slight start, then answered
quietly-too quietly, Jennie thought.
Yes; a very pretty name"
You know her?' asked Jennie, with
sudden asperiy.
81 have met her." Still that grave, al
most sad infection.
| Then, as Jennie stood towing IDLY with
the corner of her apron, he added, abb
ruptlY:
II see | am trespassing on your time; I;
good-bye! and, lifting his hat, strobe
hastily away
! Jennie watched him from the window
until his tall, 1.-THE form had disappeared
behind the trees, then turned away whisk-
ing something from her eye which was not
a spcck of dust, although she told herself
| it was.
"IIe has known her before; and now
| she is coming here, and he will see her
every day. We'll, what of that? A man
does not necessarily marry woman sim
| ply because lie knows or even admires her.
And what if he should marry her? she
kddn't care. All! she had no right TO care
now. Had she not sent him awav-re-
| PEELED and silenced the words that were
trembling on his lips? If only he had not
heard her sing those words-as If, torsooth,
his name must he the only one that came
/ into her thoughis-''
Here the fragrant odor of baking pies re-
called Jennie TO the practical affairs of
/ life, just in time to avert a threatened del
4 uge of angry tears-frem what cause she
did not know, and would not have admitted
! if she had.
! The last train to Silyerlale that evening
/ brought Miss Worthington-a tall. queen
! ly girl of two-ani-tw enty, habiied in a
beautitullv-ftting traveing-suit of silver
'.ray, ith gauzy scarf of the same color
twisted around her broad hat, and looped
] f,,ll, oh Ia,
Jennie could not but admire her, al
though her coming caused her heart the
sharpest pang it had ever known; but the
one thought that rose paramount in her
mind was:
| "Will has met her before; will he come
to meet her again? And if he does, what
will follow?"
But at that point her courage failed her,
and her heart refused to prophesy further.
! Tho meeting she dreaded, yet desired to
see, did not, however, take place for day
or two.
| But on the third evening, Jennie up in
her tasteful little room, arranging her sim
pie toilet for tea, heard Wills well-known
step, and peering cautiously through the
blinds, saw him coming around the path.
AT the same instant another figure float
ed into view-Miss Eulslia Worthington, in
an elegant dress of India muslin and lace,
with knot of panses at her belt, and
amethysUs at her throat, in her shapcly,
slell-like ears, and twinkling on one slen-
lder hand
Jennie, watching her, saw a flush of
painful embarrassment cross her delicate,
higll-brrd face and an answering shade of
feelil g on WINS frank comtenance; then
! Eulalie's graceful head was inclined, the
delicate white hand met his in friendly
teasp, and for few moments they stood
talking earnestly together, whiIeIuhe cloud
tgradpaily lifted from both faces
at was well. after all, that answered
him as did the other day." Jennie muir
INJURED as she turned away from the win
dow, with dull, aching pain at her heart
! ~, ter, 4 thousand times, self-inAicted
| pang than one dealt by another. His heart
would have gone back to his first loye.even
]
and my hand must have severed the chair
that would soon have become hateful to
! him
''What a handsome pair they makew
she whispered, turning back from an ire
sistible impulse to gaze once more from
the window; then whirling around with an
/ impetnous fling to the little muslin-draped
mirror above her modest dressing-;able. she
studied her own face with scrutiny that
I was pathetic in IFS earnest intentness. Wo-
fully plain it looked to her, and she finally
turned away, her eyes brimming with
/ tears.
NO, no." she niurmured, mourniul
tone quayering through the sweet, hitherto
joyous voice. 1T is of no use, | must
give him up forget him. 1t is well | was
warned in time" THIN with an indignant
ihrob stirring at her poor little aching
heart; How dare be try to make love to
meawitli that secret hidden in his life? ]
shall begin to hate him SoOnw
But Jennie found that hate, like love,
Was no, to be summoned at will; and when
nalf an hour later, VIII came up to her
with bis old hearty greeting, although tenn
pered by restraint such as had never
come between them before, she found il
ha''i to keep back the hot, rebellious tears
lhse would have betrayed her yearning
heart.